Poet/poetic source: Anonymous poet
Poetic form/text type: madrigal
Music composer: Andrea Gabrieli (c.1532-1585)
Music source: Il secondo libro de madrigali a6 voci (Angelo Gardano press, Venice, 1580)
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Se tu m'ami, i' t'adoro, e se per me ti struggi, per te moro; Se la vita in mi tieni, io teco vivo e temo e spero e penso e parlo e scrivo! Dunque sia nel tuo cor com'รจ nel mio: amor, speme, pensier, tema e desio. |
If you love me, I adore you, and if you pine for me, for you I die; If you sustain my life, with you I live and fear and hope and think and speak and write! Thus may it be entwined in your heart as it is in mine: Love, hope, thought, fear, and desire. |